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I. KINNEY. WIRE 1113310.

No. 429,537. Patented June 3, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISRAEL KINNEY, OF BRANTFORD, ONTARIO, CANADA.

WIRE FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 429,537, dated June 3, 1890. Application filed September 4, 1889. Serial No. 322,917. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern.- I

Be it known that I, ISRAEL KINNEY, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Brantford, in the county of Brant and Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements'in Wire Fabrics; and I do hereby declare that the following specification, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description of my improvements, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention relates to an improvement on the wire matting for which Letters Patent were granted to me June 4; 1889, No.

404,417, and differs from said patent in slight.

changes in the positions of the interlocking wires and in the addition of stiffening-strips of metal.

In my patent above referred to I combine with a series of spirally-wound interlocking wires intermediate strands of wire running in the same direction and through the alternate coils of the adjacent spirals,while in my present improvement I combine with the series of spirally-wound interlocking wires intermediate strands running in the same direction outside of the interlocking spirals and passing alternately above and below through the exterior angles formed by said interlocking coils.

In order that myinvention will be fully understood, I will first describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, and then more particularly point out in the claims the novel points.

In said drawings, Figure I is a plan view of a section of my improved wire fabric. Fig. II is a side elevation of the same, and Fig. III is a section taken on the line III III, Fig. I. Fig. IV is an end elevation of a section of my improved fabric flattened. Fig. V is a plan view of amodification. Fig. V1 is a side view of the same, and Fig. VII is a section on line VII VII, Fig. V. Fig. VIII is a plan view of a further modification; and Fig. IX is a section on line IX IX, Fig. VIII.

A A A A represent a series of the lefthand spirally-wound interlocking wires held in place from shifting sidewise by right-hand spirals B and B, running in the same direction with the interlocking spirals. These spirals B B engage alternately in the exterior angles a 1), formed above andbelow the intersection of the wires A A, &c., as clearly shown in Figs. I, II, and III. This fabric thus formed may be flattened, (see Fig. IV,) so as to present a firmer surface; or it may be used without flattening, and in case it is used without flattening when made of large coils I provide parallel rigid metallic strips 0 O, passing longitudinally through the interlocking coils A A and binding spirals B B, so as to stiffen the fabric and make it hold its shape more satisfactorily. These metal pieces 0 O are bound in position by wedges D, which are forced between them and clamp them against the interlocking primary wires. This modification is clearly shown in Figs.V,VI, and VII.

As a further modification, the parallel rigid strips 0 C may be substituted by a single stout wire X, as illustrated in Figs. VIII and IX, the binding-coils B B being passed, as before, around the exterior angles formed by the intersection of the wires A A.

In Figs. I, II, and VIII, I have shown the ends of the wire coils finished off by lead caps or knobs E, for forming the fabric into door or other mats. These knobs are molded onto the ends of the wire coils to protect them and also to bind the coils from lateral movement. In molding the lead or other easily-fusible metal suitable for the purpose to the ends of the wire mats, I secure all the ends in a long mold and pour the molten metal around them, which, when cold, will have the appearance of the strip of metal E. (Shown in Figs. V and VI.) The mat may be used with these solid strips of metal binding each end; but to increasethe flexibility of the mat I cutout the metal between the ends of the coils and finish as shown in Figs. I and II; or molds may be in g the collapsing of the said primary coils, as explained.

2. A wire fabric composed of the interwoven primarywires and the secondarylocking wire or wires woven back and forth in aplane perpendicular to the plane of the fabric and engaging in the exterior angles formed by the intersections of the primary wires, as hereinbefore explained.

3. A wire fabric consisting of interlocking spiral coils A A and intermediate spirals B B engaging alternately above and below in the exterior angles formed by the intersections of the primary coils,whereby the several coils are held in place, as herein set forth.

4. A wire fabric consisting of interlocking spiral coils A A and intermediate spirals B 13, all running in substantially the same direction, said spirals B B engaging alternately in the exterior angles a b above and below the intersections of said coils A A, whereby the several coils are rigidly locked together, as herein set forth.

5. In a wire fabric, the combination of the left-hand spirally-wound primary coils interlockin g and running in substantially the sameleft-hand spirally-wound coils interlocking with each other, and the righthand spirals passing alternately above and below the intel-sections of said left-hand coils, with pairs of metallic strips passing through the center of all the coils and wedges for clamping them in place, as set forth.

ISRAEL KINNEY. WVitnesses:

WILL D. J ONES, KATE DEVLIN,

Both of Brantford, Canada. 

